Pell Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does Pell Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 94, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Pell Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (99). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Pell Street, with 29 reports. Across every category, 204 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name residential noise. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 28 reports, then noise at 11. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pell Street. About 126 reports per 100 homes sit on Pell Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Pell Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 15 residential buildings and 162 homes on Pell Street, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Pell Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 93 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 3. Pell Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 93 on the same scale, with housing at 75. Against every street in the city, Pell Street ranks 91 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Pell Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
About 32% of the 162 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 52 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Pell Street runs through Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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